WGXC drone Noah Reibel broadcasts radio work concerning other places and the ways we get there. Board a transatlantic flight with a British musician whose anxiety gives way to ruminations about life, death, and in-flight snacks. Touch down in Hull, the English seaport that voted itself number one in the book of 'Craptowns.’ Radio producer Nick Franklin’s “Craptown: Too Good For England,” captures the poetry, pathos and gallows humor of the city poet Phillip Larkin called home, and that Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World called ‘Hell on Earth.’ Next stop is “Kipperman’s Pawn Shop,” a combination pawn shop/wedding chapel in Houston, TX. When tough times arrived in the 80s, Kipperman wound up with a surplus of hocked wedding rings. “Melting down the memories” didn’t sit right with him. While he was considering what to do with the rings, God spoke to him- and the hybrid chapel/pawn shop was born. Getting lost is one of the joys of travel, but Natalie Kestecher’s “The Silver Umbrella” is about things that get lost in transit. Kestecher winds up in German lost and found hell trying to recover an object, a thread, and a history. Kestecher’s inventive radio pieces defy easy classification, combining documentary, memoir, fiction, bits of phone conversations, found sounds, and more. About The Silver Umbrella, Kestecher writes, “In the mid 1920s Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley, is said to have lost a suitcase containing her husbands earliest, unpublished work. In the Silver Umbrella, Natalie Kestecher takes the Hemingway story and intertwines it with the story of her father’s lost childhood and a silver umbrella speculating on the nature of loss and on why we often go searching for things that we don’t really want to find.”